Books published by University of Notre Dame Press

This translation of Grundmann's classic provides a historiography of medieval religious life - one that lies between the extremes of doctrinal classification and materialistic analysis - and represents the underlining of women's importance in the development of religion in the Middle Ages.

This study offers an alternative to rigid, legalistic interpretations of the substantial discussions of law in Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae and defends his ethics from charges of excessive legalism.

This collection of personal narratives is from the day-to-work of people who attempt to prove the Catholic University true to its mission. Faculty, administrators, and alumni provide personal perspectives on how the Catholic character is realized in their own occupations, ministries, and vocations.

This text explores questions of the relation of meaning and truth in the philosophy of religion. Topics discussed include: the logic of theological enquiry; the challenges to the veracity of religious discourse; social processes and religious beliefs; and the question of the reality of God.

These essays comprise the reflections of eight thinkers on various aspects of the problems of modern thought and its attitude to religion. The book questions the assumption that humans prosper when their relation to God has been broken.

Contending that Marxism achieved its unique position in part by adopting the content and functions of Christianity, MacIntyre details the religious attitudes and modes of belief that appear in Marxist doctrine as it developed historically from the philosophies of Hegel and Feuerbach, and as it has been carried on by latter-day interpreters from Rosa Luxemburg and Trotsky to Kautsky and Lukacs. The result is a lucid exposition of Marxism and an incisive account of its persistence and continuing importance.

This is the story of Bolivian rural development and cultural change in three parts. The first provides an overview of the history of rural development; the second consists of narratives of nine projects; and the third analyzes successful outcomes of the projects and their effects.

This collection of articles explore the field of international business ethics. Together, the articles paint a multidisciplinary picture of international business ethics as it evolves, and delineate the contours of how international business ethics may develop at the turn of the millennium.

Representing an introduction to the study of prayer, this volume of essays traces both Christian and Jewish prayer traditions up to the turn of the 20th century.

Investigation of the theology of the Latin American poet, Juana Ines de la Cruz. Tavard provides an analysis of the theological ideas she expressed in poetry and prose and the conclusions she reached about herself and about humanity.

Mark W. Roche presents a clear, precise and positive view of the challenge and promise of a Catholic university. He makes visible the ideal of a Catholic university and illuminates the diverse, but interconnected, dimensions of Catholic identity.

Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, a Peruvian mestizo and historian, envisioned Latin America as a multiethnic continent and advanced a humanist interpretation of New World history. In this collection of articles, central aspects of Garcilaso's life and work are reviewed.

The three books presented here were all written in the early 1930s, a time of troubles for France. It was then surrounded by enemies and was itself on the verge of civil war. Here, Maritain accepts the responsibility of a Christian philosopher to address the practical problems of the time.

This text, by the author of ""The Pragmatic Philosophy of William James"", provides a critical analysis of James's philosopy of religion. It examines and extends his insights and arguments, exhibiting their depth and contemporary relevance.

A compendium study of the ""Hail Mary"", which is at once historical and exegetical, as well as critical and meditative. Ayo examines the quintessential Marian prayer word by word and line by line, analysing each phrase in itself and in relation to the other phrases.

In this classic work, Frederick C. Copleston, S.J., outlines the development of philosophical reflection in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thought from the ancient world to the late medieval period. A History of Medieval Philosophy is an invaluable general introduction that also includes longer treatments of such leading thinkers as Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham.

Filled with the nuanced beauty and complexity of the everyday-a pot of beans, a goat carcass, embroidered linens, a grandfather's cancer-A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying journeys through the inherited fear of creation and destruction. The histories of South Texas and its people unfold in Laurie Ann Guerrero's stirring language, including the dehumanization of men and its consequences on women and children. Guerrero's tongue becomes a palpable border, occupying those liminal spaces that both unite and divide, inviting readers to consider that which is known and unknown: the body. Guerrero explores not just the right, but the ability to speak and fight for oneself, one's children, one's community-in poems that testify how, too often, we fail to see the power reflected in the mirror.

A collection of essays on Pope Gregory the Great, many taken from a symposium held in 1993. Gregory emerges as a figure interpreting the past - by receiving, synthesizing and developing the teachings of earlier writers - and presenting a persuasive theological and pastoral agenda.

I have traveled far and wide, far beyond the simple parish I envisioned as a young man. My obligation of service has led me into diverse yet interrelated roles: college teacher, theologian, president of a great university, counselor to four popes and six presidents. Excuse the list, but once called to public service, I have held fourteen presidential appointments over the years, dealing with the social issues of our times, including civil rights, peaceful uses of atomic energy, campus unrest, amnesty for Vietnam offenders, Third World development, and immigration reform. But deep beneath it all, wherever I have been, whatever I have done, I have always and everywhere considered myself essentially a priest. -from the Preface

Gringo Justice is a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the experiences of the Chicano people with the legal and judicial system in the United States. Beginning in 1848 and working to the present, a theory of Gringo justice is developed and applied to specific areas-displacement from the land, vigilantes and social bandits, the border, the police, gangs, and prisons. A basic issue addressed is how the image of Chicanos as bandits or criminals has persisted in various forms.

Prior to the outbreak of World War II, nearly forty thousand German Catholics were involved in the German Catholic Peace League, a movement that caused many people in various countries to seriously reconsider the dimension of pacifism in their faith. During the course of the War, however, many of these same German Catholics raised no serious objection to serving in Germany's armies or swearing allegiance to Adolph Hitler. First published in 1962, German Catholics and Hitler's Wars created a furor, ultimately causing a serious reevaluation of church-state relationships and, in particular, of the morality of war. This work began as an attempt to understand the demise of the German Catholic Peace League. But because of various factors, including the destruction of vital records, Gordon C. Zahn began to consider the behavior of German Catholics in general and the evidence of their almost total conformity to the war demands of the Nazi regime. Using sociological analysis, he argues convincingly for the existence of a super-effective system of social controls, and of a selection between the competing values of Catholicism and nationalism. Although Zahn never speculates, conclusions are inescapable, chief among them that the traditional Catholic doctrine of the "e;just war"e; has ceased to be operative for Catholics in the modern world.

Investigates the rich implications of what the authors call ""Calvinistic"" or ""Reformed epistemology"". This is the view of knowledge-enunciated by Calvin, further developed by Barth-that sees belief in God as its own foundation; in the authors' terms, is it properly ""basic"" in itself.

Elie Wiesel brings Joshua, Saul, Elijah, Jeremiah, and Jonah to literary life through sensitive readings of the scriptures as well as through analysis of Talmudic and Hasidic sources.